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&nbsp;en-usTue, 20 Mar 2018 02:15:57 GMTen-usThe Mycelium Model of Glocal Governancehttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/The-Mycelium-Model-of-Glocal-Governance/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/The-Mycelium-Model-of-Glocal-Governance/<h3>Abstract:</h3>
<p>The Mycelium Model of Glocal Governance is a governance structure that is parallel to the existing governance structures in the world. It does not aim to replace them. It is complementary to them. It has, however, the inherent power to transform them or to bring about new structures that make them obsolete.</p>
<p>It is glocal, translocal in nature. It is decentralised, powered through the interdependent participation of local and translocal random groups of people. </p>
<p>The Mycelium governance structure does not make decisions. Its function is to facilitate awareness of current consensus in society. Once collective realization arises, there should be no need for making "decisions". However, where decisions are made in the parallel old and emerging governance structures, this collective realization is taken into account as part of agreeing on the chosen path forward.</p>
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<h4>1) People gathering</h4>
<p>From society, people gather in groups, meet at a venue or online, synchronously or asynchronously, with the aim to reach consensus. </p>
<h4>2) Consensing process</h4>
<p>They make use of best practice methods and tools to help reach and formulate consent or consensus outcomes.</p>
<h4>3) Sharing outcomes</h4>
<p>The outcomes are shared with the public and amplified to society at large. Evolving best practices will continuously improve the way in which these outcomes are kept retrievable in the most relevant ways.</p>
<p>The implementation of this model works by nursing and cultivating best practices for 1) People gathering, 2) Consensing process and 3) Sharing outcomes. As the quality and best practices in these three fields improve, the attention to these processes and the awareness of its outcomes in society at large will increase.</p>
<p>As this governance culture evolves, it will be increasingly possible to respond to challenges by retrieving information on the existing collective consensus regarding how to handle the challenge. </p>
<p>The Mycelium Model of Glocal Governance represents a fundamental shift away from decision making power structures to a culture of moving forward on agreed paths as a direct result of collective awareness.</p>
<p>The model works with existing institutions, regulations, decision-making paths and control mechanisms and does not directly control how key individuals and other decision-making bodies are to be appointed. It influences these institutions, decision-making and control mechanisms as well as their appointment only in a way in which existing checks and balances are initially unchanged. Newly emerging governance structures evolve their mandate and their checks and balances independently as well, in accordance with current regulations and control mechanisms.</p>
<p>The premise of the Mycelium model is a bottum up, organic and self-organisational approach that releases the full potential of individuals, communities and affinity groups to manifest change with greater sovereignty in a self-empowered, decentralized way. It at the same time ensures an increased likeyhood that the changes that are manifested are supported by a large consensus in society.</p>
<p>The mycelium is both a local solution and an international solution that can work in tandem, or symbiotically, with existing systems as they are transforming. This is an enlightened, innovative way to approach the challenges we all face today, but it is also a model that is striking through its simplicity. It is spoken in the very language of the nature we are trying to preserve, not only as it relates to the metaphor of the mycelium shape, but also in the way it creates an entire ecosystem for current and future governance best practices and how it works with the nature of the human being instead of against it. </p>
<p>António Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations on the 19th September 2017 stated: </p>
<p>The UN needs to decentralise it's decisions and to create a game changing strategy that places more on people than on process.</p>
<h3>Description:</h3>
<h4>The need for a new shape for current and future challenges </h4>
<p>As we recognise the need to see global challenges as a requirement for more global coordination and cooperation, and hence, the need for governance to become one global organisation, we at the same time see organisations of all sizes shifting from simple decision making structures towards a more complex governance culture. Governance at any level and organisations of any size are becoming increasingly synonymous concepts.</p>
<h4>Different shapes of organising, providing a historic context</h4>
<p>In recent human history, different paradigm shifts in how we organise and govern have come about at an increasing pace. From a triangle shaped governance, that is authority based and where the bottom line is what the person in charge is saying, to boxed shaped forms of organisation where the bottom line is what the "contract" says, to circle shaped governance, which is dialogue based and where the bottom line is what we decide together. </p>
<p>These waves of new forms of organising have spilled into the cultures of our society in ways where the older organisation structures continued to exist in parallel. The new organisations tend to form along side old ones, but grow to increasing importance, while the older organisation structures slowly fade in their relevance. </p>
<p>On the historic time scale, authority based organising has shaped our governance for thousands of years while contract based governance has become of primary importance during the past centuries. In comparison, dialogue based, collective decision making has really been gaining only during the past decades, with a vast amount of our governance structures still dominated by the earlier forms of organisation. However, we see an exponentially fast transformation happening towards the more advanced forms of organising, to the point of new paradigm shifts happening already before the impact of earlier shifts is fully felt in society.</p>
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<h4>The shape of the mycelium</h4>
<p>We propose that the new shape of a governance culture to meet current and future challenges is that of the mycelium.</p>
<p><i>"I have increasingly come to regard the mycelium as a heterogenous army of hyphal troops, variously equipped for different roles and in varying degrees of communication with one another. Without a commander, other than the dictates of their environmental circumstances, these troops organise themselves into a beautifully open-ended or indeterminate dynamic structure that can continually respond to changing demands."</i></p>
<p><i>Dr Alan Rayner ( Biologist and Educator) </i></p>
<p>The word mycelium literally means more than one. The plural form is Mycelia. The word has modern Latin and Greek origins and was first coined in text in the early 1800s, and refers to the thread-like body of a fungus. </p>
<p>The spores of most fungi grow a network of branching filamentous hyphae, which spread into the existing organic structures. In most fungi, hyphae are collectively called a mycelium. The hyphae excrete enzymes that break down the old and turn it into compost, which serves as nutrient for the emerging new.
Where hyphae gather to form a whitish mycelium-soil aggregated zone, called the shiro, a mushroom will come out as the fruit bodies of the mycelium, with its spores spreading to grow new hyphea elsewhere.</p>
<h4>The shape of the Mycelium applied to governance</h4>
<p>Like a spore from a mushroom, people that carry the awareness about a collective consensus in society, will be motivated to move to action along that path. Like hyphea, they will grow to find others that they can join in order to implement projects for manifesting the change that is called for. Or they will be motivated to further explore related aspects regarding that challenge and gather in groups with others that share that interest. Like in shiro, these gatherings, with the use of best practice processes, will create consensus outcomes statements that, like mushrooms, send the spores of that newly gained awareness out in society. </p>
<h4>The Mycelium's governance cycle's cause and effect</h4>
<p>Based on the existing awareness they have in society, people are motivated to individually or as part of a group, implement projects with the aim of manifesting the change they see needed. By providing platforms and tools where they can connect with others that interested to work on these shared aims, they can use stronger synergies of cooperation and are more likely to succeed to manifest that change. </p>
<p>To the extent that such change manifests in society, people in society become more aware of related challenges. Also, based on the level of awareness in society people will feel motivated to gather to explore other existing challenges. Organisational structures and tools can continue to be improved, that allow the people interested in these challenges to gather and through the nurturing of best practices for the consensus development, come up with breakthrough consensus outcome statements, for which the awareness in society at large did not exists before.</p>
<p>Based on this higher awareness of collective consensus in society at large, again people motivated to start or join a project with that aim will look for others to cooperate with. Since their plan of action is based on a wider consensus in society, they are now more likely to find others with a synergetic motivation to join in manifesting the projects.</p>
<p>As this circle repeats, this leads to change with a wider consensus in society to be exponentially more likely to manifest.</p>
<h4>Implementation of the model and its challenges</h4>
<p>The challenge of the model is to motivate people to gather and invest the time in the consensus processes. This becomes easier as they see the effect that the shared outcomes have in society. The shared outcomes in turn are payed more attention to, if they have a high probability of being representative of wide spread consensus in society. This in turn is dependent on the quality of best practices and methods used in the consensus development processes. </p>
<p>So, the main need for the successful evolution of a mycelium governance culture is to nurture and cultivate the quality of the ways in which 1) people gather, 2) the consensing processes used and 3) the ways the outcomes are shared. </p>
<p>Progress can be made separately in all these three areas. Many existing groups and projects are working on increasingly better solutions for these three aspects. This ranges from online platforms where people with shared motivation can more easily organize to gather, either in offline venues or using online tools, it includes the evolution of better facilitation methods for working with gathered groups of people, new social media technologies and media platforms or distributed databases for the sharing of outcomes. </p>
<p>It is the groups of people that chose and evolve these tools and best practices, they are not given by the model itself. Hence, their diverse evolution is encouraged and will self regulate towards higher quality and transparency.</p>
<p>The people participating in this governance culture do not need a mandate to participate. Nor do they have any decision authority as a result of their participation. They simply share their resulting consensus, which through good sharing practices raises awareness in society. It is society, its individual members, its organisations and institutions, that will act as a result of that higher awareness, through the usual mandates and accountability.</p>
<h4>Manifesting change through existing governance structures</h4>
<p>As new challenges and risks are emerging, the self-empowered culture of the evolving and curated consensus will be ready for organisations and institutions to tap into. It will be a self-regulating reality that consensus outcomes are produced and collected ahead of existing and emerging decision making structures starting to be paying attention to these challenges. This essentially means that in a mycelium governance culture it is likely that when a need to act emerges, the awareness for what that action should be is already there.</p>
<p>The Mycelium model suggests the transformation of the old order with a progressive and dynamic way that increases and improves our democracies in a comprehensive manner. It is a metamorphosis without an overthrow of existing order; but a pragmatic approach of consensus building with everyone concerned.
Once collective realization arises, there should be no need for making "decisions" anymore because everyone will know what has to be done when the time comes to do it. This awareness strongly forces those governmental decision making structures to abide by what the people have in their collective wisdom through open discussion and debate worked out. </p>
<p>To the extent that there is resistence to implementing such change, the Mycelium governance culture would also lead to a much faster emergence of new bottom up governance structures that replace old top down structures that resist this change. Therefore, where decisions would be made in other existing or newly emerging governance structures, this collective realization is increasinly likely to be taken into account when agreeing on a path forward.</p>
<p>In some ways these changes have already been taking place across the world in various communities and nation states and are ongoing. The aim simply needs to be to nurture and curate the key facilitating aspects of this emerging governance ecosystem.</p>
<h4>Conclusion</h4>
<p>The mycelium model addresses the current and future challenges in society through its decentralized structure and its open, transparent democracy encourraging culture. By creating and accelerating awareness or consciousness and redistributing responsibility, it focusses strongly on the solution and how it can be implemented. It encourages a culture that moves away from decision making, which just gives an opportunity to point fingers at others, who made decisions, to avoid responsibility. It leaves the actual doing, along with the ultimate responsibility that comes with that doing, to society at large, where both is in much better hands.</p>
<h3>Argumentation:</h3>
<h4>1. Core Values</h4>
<p>We trust the open processes that the model affords and distrust the closed processes of existing structures which are bound by bureaucracy and secrecy. The value system of humanity we believe to be intrinsically good and aimed at what is the better and the right course of action for all, for all life on the planet.</p>
<h4>2. Decision-Making Capacity</h4>
<p>In our case our process happens before the decision happens and happens ahead of time. It speeds up the process, because those participating in the decision making can take the outcomes into account, therefore it makes the decision making process faster and is likely to increase the quality of the outcomes. Ideally, decision makers will feel that there is no decision to make because of it being clear what needs to be done.</p>
<h4>3. Effectiveness</h4>
<p>With a Mycelium governance culture, it is more likely that implementation of decisions within societies and within decision making structures are met with less resistance because the process of agreement has already been dealt with through through the awareness for what consensus exists in society. If a community is more committed to the course of action, then it is easier to implement such action. </p>
<h4>4. Resources and Financing</h4>
<p>At its fundamental level, the Mycelium model is a self-empowered, decentralized, bottom up governance structure for which the resources can be obtained without top down aid. The most important support that it can receive would be to not expend top down resources to try to suppress its emergence. Ideally, a broad consensus in the United Nations general assembly would encourage nation states to have a supportive attitude towards the emergence of a Mycelium governance culture.</p>
<p>As the action of moving forward with manifesting changes happens outside the Mycelium governance structures themselves, the existing and emerging governance structure will have or will obtain the required resources for implementing change through their existing means. If anything, these changes, due to them being supported with larger awareness in society, will have an easier time to obtain required resources and financing in a matter that is equitable and fair.</p>
<h4>5. Trust and Insight</h4>
<p>This model gives back the power into the hands of the people, by empowering them through the collective awareness. People will regognize themselves to be a sovereign part of the manifestation of change. They will feel responsible to maintain and increase the quality of the governance processes and hence its transparency. The outcomes of these processes are shared with everyone in the society and fears are overcome with truth. This in turn will strengthen the emerging Mycelium culture of governance to itself become a strong web of trust. </p>
<p>As part of that, transparency about the groups that gather, the processes they use and the way the outcomes are shared are important meta data of the outcomes themselves, essential for that web of trust. Because this governance model is decentralized and bottom up, it will self regulate in this regard. </p>
<h4>6. Flexibility</h4>
<p>A Mycelium governance culture, like a mycelium in nature, is highly adaptive to the evolving environment around it. In many ways, it is a meta governance structure to old governance structures that exist and new ones that emerge. Hence, it itself has less of a need to change. The ever evolving parts are the tools and best practices that are used to continuously improve the quality of the different processes in the Mycelium governance cycle. Continues and divers improvement and evolution of these parts is an integral part of the model and is self regulating.</p>
<h4>7. Protection against the Abuse of Power.</h4>
<p>The Mycelium model is based on sharing consensus and raising awareness in society and doesn't make or implement ANY decisions. Since it itself does not have any power to manifest the change, it can not overstep its mandate. By separating the awareness and the implementation processes we create natural checks and balances that prevent abuses of power from happening. Through the increased awareness in society, the model also serves to make abuse of power in other existing or emerging governance structures less likely.</p>
<h4>8. Accountability.</h4>
<p>The accountablilty of those that implement projects and manifest change, as well as of those that make decisions in existing governance structures, is not impacted or changed in any way by the Mycelium governance culture. Through the higher awareness in society, the accountability in these other governance structures, as well as the accountability of anybody manifesting change or trying to prevent it, will tend to increase due to the Mycelium governance culture.</p>
<span class="small">6.11.2017, 9:33</span>Mon, 06 Nov 2017 09:33:00 GMTThe Summer Camps experience of St-Imier 2017http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/TheSummerCampsexperienceofSt-Imier2017/
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<p>FairCoop is beginning to consolidate its new form of organization. Finally, thanks to the work of the last Summer Camps (in Décentrale, Mont Soleil, Switzerland, with the help of Synergiehub and SCI Schweiz), a new operating scheme has emerged, which we will detail in our next post. There, in Jura, we spent eight weeks of intense work in which we approached different aspects related to the FairCoop ecosystem. Two months of pleasant cohabitation and a continuous flow of ideas whose development we describe below.</p>
<b>July 30th  August 13rd</b>
<h3>Introduction to FairCoop ecosystem. How to create a local node in your region</h3>
<p>The first FairCoop camp introduced dozens of young people from all over the world (Ukraine, Mexico, Spain, Czech, Russia, Italy, Ethiopia) to the principles of permaculture, self-empowerment, synergy, solidarity, cooperatives, alternative economies in general, citizen journalism, democratic schools, etc Working on building the dome, yurt, wood chopping, renovation of the veranda was an important part of learning how to self-organize and share the values of community life.</p>
<p>At first, the camp was chaotic, according to the participants; later realizing that the chaos was part of the order they needed to establish with their hosts. Intensive work outside and inside the house, in the kitchen, promoting diversity and vegetarian food, weekend trips to lakes and mountain houses, and cities around Jura, was all part of the plan for them to learn and enjoy as much as they can during this process.</p>
<p>Young people were surprised that everybody was equal, in the sense that there were no classic representative authorities like owners, leaders, teachers They often didnt understand everything that was part of the workshops and lectures, as a complex study of theory and praxis of subjects like permaculture, anarchy, cooperatives, blockchain and cryptocurrency economics, protesting at first that there was too much information. Participants were slowly introduced to communicating on Telegram, installing FairCoin wallets, buying some FairCoin, spending some in the Espace Noir bar in St. Immier, and learning a lot about how differences can be peacefully harmonized in a diverse group of people.</p>
<p>It was interesting that one of the conclusions of the people participating in first of four summer camps dedicated to further development of FairCoop, was that they witnessed the movement needed to change the world away from its current capitalist system.</p>
<p><img src="http://st-imier.org/static/st-imier.org/images/Summer-Camp-1-768x255.jpg" /></p>
<b>August 16th  August 23rd</b>
<h3>Blockchain for women</h3>
<p>During the 3rd week of August, a meeting of women took place to learn and reflect on this new technology. It was a great opportunity to meet, live together and learn both from Blockchain and the need to readjust everyones expectations when we want to move forward in a group towards a common goal. Women from diverse backgrounds, knowledge and expectations, embarked on the task of self-organizing both at the academic and logistical levels, with diverse results. The experience was certainly very enriching.</p>
<p>In addition to the enormous and worrisome gender and class gap that this new technology is generating, we learned some of the enormous possibilities that will emerge in the immediate future from it. Complicated but exciting, we understood how the FairCoop ecosystem uses this technological opportunity to generate value and support the creation of a fairer world. We also set about creating a space for the study of crypto trading and its intricacies, in order to contribute from a female/feminist perspective.</p>
<p>No less important was the realization that neglecting to care for each other and to consciously generate spaces for exchange and reflection  on what we want, and how we want to do things  leads us time after time to ways of doing that constrict us. A true reflection of what we have to do in our daily lives is needed, if we really want to organise from below and cooperatively  without anyone having to direct or supervise anyone else. Also if we want cooperative spaces really to be cooperative, so that in spite of the individualistic and hierarchical culture in which we have been raised, we are able to create spaces where we are all able to give the best of ourselves, and so take care of both people and the planet.</p>
<p><img src="http://st-imier.org/static/st-imier.org/images/Summer-Camp-2.jpg" /></p>
<b>August 23  September 6</b>
<h3>FairCoop ecosystem open cooperative work</h3>
<p>This module was intended more for people already experienced in the FairCoop ecosystem, and had as its goal the refinement and development of the already existing FairCoop protocols and ways of organising, plus some new additions to these.</p>
<p>The workshop welcomed to Mont Soleil people from Switzerland, France, Austria, Catalonia/Spain, Argentina, Greece, Italy, South Africa, Philippines and we were particularly happy to have some people from Bakur in Kurdistan (Turkish state), who had come to learn about merging their own style of self-organised cooperativism with our own.</p>
<p>The focus of this summer camp was to develop five areas of open cooperative work. This areas are: welcome, communication, common management, circular economy and tech. In each one of the areas an assembly was created that is now taking care of the priorities of the area, and defining tasks to be done and paid for in a fair and open way  simplifing the way in which any participant of the ecosystem has the opportunity to be rewarded based on the time spent in doing useful tasks.</p>
<p><img src="http://st-imier.org/static/st-imier.org/images/Summer-Camp-3-768x255.jpg" /></p>
<p>A common budget was proposed (and approved later on in the September FairCoop assembly), in order to begin this innovative and inclusive method of collaboration. Most of the areas also activated roles of facilitators who will help the development of the assemblies and tasks, and some subareas were also introduced, looking forward to an even more decentralized open coop structure. We also learnt about dynamising assemblies and scrum/agile techniques, and applying these to the newly formed Areas of FairCoop.</p>
<p>We concentrated quite heavily on the new Circular Economy Area, intended to increase participation in FairCoop at a local level, and this does seem to have been successful, judging by the number of new Local Nodes which have been formed since the Summer Camp. We also worked a lot on the Welcome Area, Media and Communication, and Tech areas.</p>
<p>We couldnt have left Jura without paying for beers in Faircoin at the fantastic Espace Noir bar, and the walk down from Mont Soleil to St. Imier was as much of a highlight as getting the cable car back up!</p>
<p>We really feel that the Summer Camp was a massive injection of energy into the project, and we unblocked some longstanding issues which allowed us to move the whole thing up to another level. This process is ongoing since then and we will be seeing the results soon. It was also great fun to meet everyone who we may up until then have only known virtually. FairCoop is all about building trust and community, unlike many other crypto projects which are focused on individualism, so it was vital to be able to interact face-to-face and in person with the other people building the project. There was a lot of cooking and cleaning, and also a Fair bit of dancing and laughing!</p>
<p><img src="http://st-imier.org/static/st-imier.org/images/Summer-Camp-4-768x255.jpg" /></p>
<b>September 7  September 22</b>
<h3>Developing a model of glocal governance</h3>
<p>Beyond just the immediate steps of developing the organizational structure of the FairCoop projects for the next phase of the next months and years, we looked at ways to scale a governance culture to society at large. A governance culture that embraces autonomy and gives authoritative answers to what we collectively want to consent to doing.</p>
<p>People from Switzerland, Finland, Spain, South Africa, Austria and Greece were involved in this part of the summer camp. We focused on collecting various governance best practices such as the Constellation Model, Sociocracy 3.0 and Occupy-Style Open Assemblies.</p>
<p>The governance structure that resulted from these workshops is one that aims to be parallel to other governance structures. It does not aim to replace them. It is complementary to them. It has, however, the inherent power to transform them or to bring about new structures that make old ones obsolete. It is glocal, translocal in nature. It is decentralised, powered through the interdependent participation of local and translocal random groups of people.</p>
<p>This governance culture does not make decisions. Its function is to facilitate awareness of current consensus in society. Once collective realization arises, there should be no need for making decisions. However, where decisions are made in other parallel governance structures, this collective realization is taken into account as part of agreeing on the chosen path forward. We defined ways to implement such a glocal governance culture that can be taken into account as we move forward.</p>
<p><img src="http://st-imier.org/static/st-imier.org/images/Summer-Camp-5-768x255.jpg" /></p>
<span class="small">3.11.2017, 21:33</span>Fri, 03 Nov 2017 21:33:00 GMTSt-Imier Gatherings 2017: July 30 - September 22http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/St-Imier-Gatherings-2017-July-30-September-22/
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<p>This years Beau-Sejour gatherings will stretch over 7 weeks of hands-on FairCoop related social permaculture workshops!</p>
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<b>July 30  August 13</b>
<h3>Introduction to FairCoop ecosystem. How to create a local node in your region.</h3>
<p>There are 12 places available for activists who wants to learn about FairCoop ecosystem and extend in their region. Priority for people coming from places where there are no local nodes.<br />
You can see the current local nodes list, here: https://fair.coop/docs/local-nodes-list/ <br />
More info about Faircoop here https://www.fair.coop <br />
More info about what is a local node here: https://fair.coop/docs/how-to-create-local-nodes/ <br />
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<a href="https://fair.coop/summercamps-faircoop-in-jura-switzerland-2017/#registration">Register yourself</a> right now (last chance).</p>
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<b>August 14-15</b>
<h3>Glocal Governance Brainstorming</h3>
<p>Glocal Governance, mixing the mycelium model, the constellation model, sociocracy in a federated culture. This is a pre-session to the more extensive work that will be done on the topic during the weeks from September 7th to the 22nd. <br />
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<a href="https://fair.coop/summercamps-faircoop-in-jura-switzerland-2017/#registration">Register yourself</a> before August 6th.</p>
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<b>August 16  August 23</b>
<h3>Blockchain for women</h3>
<p>Blockchain and cryptocurrencies are powerful technologies who already are changing the world; in this context their early adopters are getting more economic and political power for shaping how the future will be. Again women are heavily misrepresented amongst these early adopters. This further creates more inequalities, adding to the burden of already present inequalities in the world today amongst genders.<br />
As FairCoop, we want to fight this gender divide in blockchain technologies and cryptocurrencies, both at the technological and economical level. Based in the FairCoin and FairCoop framework, in this summer camp we are going to share as much as we can to facilitate a more gender balanced participation about this topics.<br />
There are 24 places available for female activists who want to learn about blockchain and FairCoin.<br />
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<a href="https://fair.coop/summercamps-faircoop-in-jura-switzerland-2017/#registration">Register yourself</a> before August 6th.</p>
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<b>August 23  September 6</b>
<h3>FairCoop ecosystem open cooperative work</h3>
<p>Lets reorganize FairCoop and prepare the ecosystem for the challenges of the next period.
The FairCoop ecosystem has been growing during the last year in projects, services, nodes, expansion to many places, and more forms of participation. At the same time, the budget dedicated to global tasks has remained at quite a flat level, creating a big load of work amongst few people, at the same time, many people who has been ready to contribute, had the limitations of doing it only as volunteers, needing to look outside for having incomes. Meanwhile. in the last months the FairCoin value has been growing a lot, providing more funding capacity to the FairCoop ecosystem. <br />
We have big challenges coming up, and need to organize ourselves better! Summer is good time for diving deep into an internal reorganization for getting ready for the next period.<br />
There are 24-30 places available for activist higly motivated to participate in the open cooperative work of FairCoop, both at global and local level. It is possible to come for one week or for the whole two weeks.
Activists developing autonomous projects connected to the FairCoop ecosystem are also welcome!<br />
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<a href="https://fair.coop/summercamps-faircoop-in-jura-switzerland-2017/#registration">Register yourself</a> before August 13th.</p>
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<b>September 7  September 22</b>
<h3>Developing a Model of Glocal Governance</h3>
<p>Lets answer the call to for the Global Challenge with a proposal to a glocal model of governance in the spirit of grassroots local autonomy and global federated cooperation. We will focus during these days in September on collecting various governance best practices such as the Constellation Model, Sociocracy 3.0 and Occupy-Style Open Assemblies and combine them with the results from a series of work sessions on the topic weve done this year, including something we called the Mycelium Model of Glocal Governance. By the end of this work camp, we aim to have a finished, presentable proposal for a new governance best practice that can be followed as a model, at any scale, from local initiatives to global movements. A governance culture that embraces autonomy and gives authoritative answers to what we collectively want to consent to doing. Do you feel up to the challenge? You are welcome to take part!<br />
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<a href="https://fair.coop/summercamps-faircoop-in-jura-switzerland-2017/#registration">Register yourself</a> before August 28th.</p>
<span class="small">16.7.2017, 14:06</span>Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:06:00 GMTParticipate in the solutions of tomorrow!http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Participate-in-the-solutions-of-tomorrow/
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<p>Please get involved in the many projects that are developing solutions for tomorrow! If you are involved in projects for which you would wish more collaboration, please let us know. Projects that aim to create local solutions. Projects to co-create structures for self-empowered culture around the world. We are involved in many projects that you are welcome to join if you have not done so already!</p>
<p>As part of developing the best practices for how we cooperate across projects, we arranged for a workshop at the end of October to discover and practice Sociocracy 3.0. If you are interested to get more involved with the projects, if you want to learn how we can work together more effectively with methods like sociocracy, please let us know about it now!</p>
<p><b>We want to help improve the synergies between what we are all doing! If you have the chance, <a href="http://blog.dezentrale.org/stories/691">join us this weekend at Espace Noir!</a> Otherwise, let us know your intentions: <a href="mailto:info@decentrale.ch">info@decentrale.ch</a></b></p>
<p><h2>Participez aux solutions pour demain!</h2>
S'il vous plaît impliquez-vous dans les nombreux projets qui développent des solutions pour demain! Si vous êtes impliqué dans des projets pour lesquels vous souhaiteriez une plus grande collaboration, s'il vous plaît laissez-nous savoir. Des projets qui visent à créer des solutions locales. Des projets pour co-créer des structures pour la culture emancipée dans le monde entier. Nous sommes impliqués dans nombreux projets que vous êtes invités à se joindre si vous ne l'avez pas déjà fait!</p>
<p>Dans le cadre de l'élaboration des meilleures pratiques sur la façon dont nous travaillons à travers des projets, nous avons organisé un atelier à la fin d'Octobre pour découvrir et pratiquer sociocratie 3.0. Si vous êtes intéressé à participer aux projets, si vous voulez apprendre comment nous pouvons travailler ensemble plus efficacement avec des méthodes telles que la sociocratie, s'il vous plaît laissez-nous savoir maintenant!</p>
<p><b>Nous voulons contribuer à améliorer les synergies entre ce que nous faisons ensemble! Si vous avez la chance, <a href="http://blog.dezentrale.org/stories/691">rejoignez-nous ce week-end à l'Espace Noir</a>! Sinon, laissez-nous savoir vos intentions : <a href="mailto:info@decentrale.ch">info@decentrale.ch</a>!</b></p>
<p><h2>Mach mit bei Lösungen für morgen!</h2>
Bitte engagiere dich in den vielen Projekten welche Lösungen für morgen entwickeln! Wenn du in Projekten mitmachst bei denen mehr Zusammenarbeit wünschenswert wäre, lass uns dies wissen. Projekte, die lokale Lösungen realisieren. Projekte zum ko-kreieren von Strukturen für eine selbstbekräftigte Kultur weltweit. Wir sind in vielen Projekten beteiligt, zu denen du gerne dazu kommen kannst, wenn du dies nicht bereits getan hast!</p>
<p>Um die Art wie wir zwischen Projekten kooperieren weiter zu entwickeln, organisieren wir einen Workshop Ende Oktober um Soziokratie 3.0 zu entdecken und zu üben. Wenn du interessiert bist, dich mehr in Projekten zu engagieren, wenn du lernen willst, wie wir mit Methoden wie Soziokratie besser zusammenarbeiten können, lass es uns jetzt wissen!</p>
<p><b>Wir wollen helfen, die Synergien zwischen was wir alle tun zu verbessern! Wenn du die Möglichkeit hast, <a href="http://dezentrale.org/stories/691">komme an diesem Wochenende auch ins Espace Noir!</a> Ansonsten lass uns deine Absichten wissen: <a href="mailto:info@decentrale.ch">info@decentrale.ch</a></b></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Samedi 15 et dimanche 16 octobre 2016 à Espace Noir, St-Imier</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Journées de réflexion et de créations de projets pour lavenir de notre société. A loccasion de la projection du film DEMAIN (du 13 au 16 octobre). Quelles initiatives concrètes dans la Vallon de St-Imier ?</strong></p>
<p>Le but de ces journées est susciter des débats, des prises de consciences, des engagements au sein de mouvements sociaux, ainsi que de motiver des initiatives, des projets alternatifs, et de les faire converger. Nous souhaitons créer un espace de mobilisation, dengagement, de liens sociaux, de partage, de coopération et de solidarité. Lenjeu est également que les discussions ne soient pas sans lendemain, mais mènent bel et bien à une remise en question du fonctionnement même de notre société et à des actions concrètes.</p>
<p>Pour un monde différent plutôt quindifférent.</p>
<p>Programme :</p>
<p><strong>Jeudi 13</strong><br />
20h 00 Projection du film<br />
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<strong>Vendredi 14</strong><br />
20h 00 Projection du film<br />
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<strong>Samedi 15 </strong><br />
Dès midi : buffet canadien multiforme (plantes sauvages, ethnique, végétarien et végétalien, etc.). Table de presse.<br />
15h 00 Projection du film<br />
Assemblée débat et inventaire des initiatives du public.<br />
Réunion en différents groupes de travail selon les intérêts de chacun.<br />
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<strong>Dimanche 16 </strong></p>
<p>Dès 12h 00 buffet (suite). Table de presse.<br />
14h 00 Stand des initiatives existantes.<br />
Assemblée générale, compte rendu des groupes et réflexion sur lavenir.<br />
Projections ordinaires 17h 00 et 20h 00</p>
<p><strong>Inventaire de projets</strong></p>
<p>De nombreuses initiatives et projets existent déjà ou ne demandent quà être réalisés dans la région de St-Imier. Quelques exemples, bientôt rejoint par les vôtres !</p>
<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Jardins partagés</strong></span></p>
<p>Pour créer du lien social, de lémulation locale et de quartier, pour la santé, rien de plus productif que la formule des : Jardins partagés ! A Saint-Imier des projets attendent leur réalisation, dans des lieux en friche, dans des jardins abandonnés, dans des bacs etc.. Pour entrer dans une telle aventure de coopération créative, dans la magie des semences et des plantes, contactez-nous !<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>La Ruche des Coopératives</strong></span></p>
<p>LAssociation La Ruche des Coopératives en collaboration avec APRES-BEJUNE (Association pour la promotion de léconomie sociale et solidaire) et lAssociation pour la Défense des Chômeurs lance un projet de créations de coopératives dont le double objectif est de répondre aux besoins de la population et de fournir des emplois durables en priorité à des personnes qui, pour diverses raisons (qualifications non certifiées ou obsolètes, âges, manque dexpérience, etc.) sont défavorisées sur le marché de lemploi mais qui ont par contre, pour la plupart, une bonne capacité de travail et à se former.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Coopérative PADOUCHA</strong></span></p>
<p>Premier projet des coopératives solidaires : La coopérative PADOUCHA poursuit un double objectif :</p>
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<p>Promouvoir la production du terroir local ainsi que les produits et services de léconomie sociale et solidaire. Elle défend un approvisionnement de proximité ou de solidarité.</p>
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<p>Fournir des emplois durables en priorité à des personnes qui, pour diverses raisons (qualifications non certifiées ou obsolètes, âges, manque dexpérience, etc.) sont défavorisées sur le marché de lemploi mais qui ont par contre, pour la plupart, une bonne capacité de travail et à se former.</p>
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<p>Elle débutera ses activités par la vente dun choix de produits sur les marchés hebdomadaires de différentes localités de lespace BEJUNE et par la promotion des associations et institutions poursuivant les mêmes buts, particulièrement les parcs régionaux du Chasseral et du Doubs. Elle pense organiser la vente par abonnement de « paniers » issus de lagriculture locale. Elle participera ou organisera divers événements allant dans le sens des buts quelle poursuit. <br />
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<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>Coopérative Audio-Visuelle 2016</strong></span></p>
<p>La coopérative audio-visuelle aura pour but de faciliter la création artistique dans ce domaine et de développer cette industrie dans la région.</p>
<p>Pour y parvenir, la société acquerra le matériel nécessaire (caméras, ordinateurs, lumières, accessoires) pour ses propres productions et pour celles de ses membres à qui elle les louera à des tarifs préférentiels à définir par lAssemblée Générale.</p>
<p>Elle engagera des personnes chargées de produire ou daccompagner des créations cinématographiques, la gestion du matériel et des ressources.</p>
<p>Elle organisera des formations dans le domaine de laudio-visuel pour ses membres par des professionnels et par un système déchange de savoirs.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Café-réparation (ou repaire cafe)</strong></span></p>
<p>Le café-réparation est un espace qui permet de donner une nouvelle vie à vos objets endommagés, cassés ou abimés. Pendant un temps définis, des bénévoles-réparateurs mettent à disposition leur savoir-faire, leurs conseils et leur outillage. Avec des avantages économiques (pas besoin de racheter de nouveaux objets), écologiques (le gaspillage sen trouve réduit) et sociales (des échanges et de lentraide sont activés), les cafés-réparation sont une occasion de sessayer aux réparations en tous genres, et ce dans un cadre convivial.</p>
<p>Imaginé en 2009 par Martine Postma, une militante écologiste néerlandaise, le concept sest depuis lors répandu. En Suisse, cette initiative locale convainc et continu de se développer.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Rues en transition</strong></span></p>
<p>Des groupes damis et de voisins se réunissent régulièrement autour dun cahier dexercices pratiques pour faire des échanges à propos de comment ils usent lénergie, leau, la nourriture, lemballage et le transport. Lidée darrière fond de rues en transition est de faire en sorte que les habitants de notre localité sengagent la plupart dentre eux ne se voit pas comme des verts  à vivre de manière plus durable en réponse à la diminution des combustibles fossiles et du changement climatique.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Monnaie sociale</strong></span></p>
<p>Un projet pour un réseau de valeur et monnaie sociale au niveau local et pour léchange inter-régional. Le réseau de valeur est un concept qui met en lien les gens partageant des valeurs, des relations économiques et sociales et des activités de production, en leur apportant un outil légal déchange, à savoir une monnaie sociale. Le réseau de valeur produira cette monnaie et créera des revenus, à la fois à partir du travail des personnes impliquées et de leurs éventuelles ressources matérielles.</p>
<p>Le réseau déchange est donc véritablement une alternative à lorganisation traditionnelle du travail puisquil permet aux personnes qui sy engagent den vivre. Dans ce contexte, le but des monnaies sociales est de créer des cycles économiques locaux afin de réduire la dépendance à léconomie mondiale et aux ressources extérieures. En effet, en adoptant une monnaie particulière dans une région définie, la consommation des ressources locales est encouragée. En outre, le mécanisme de la création de largent est différent de celui en place dans nos pays.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Décentrale</strong></span></p>
<p>La Décentrale est un endroit de rencontre et de collaboration où se retrouvent des personnes de différentes communautés ainsi que des co-créateurs du monde entier. Ils sauto-organisent et partagent leurs activités et compétences, leurs ressources et idées dans une culture dauto-formation inspirée sur les principes de la permaculture. Ce concept peut sappliquer à tous les aspects de la vie. La Décentrale aide à construire des nouvelles structures économique, médiatiques et de gouvernance pour la future culture de notre société.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Synergiehub</strong></span></p>
<p>Le Synergiehub est un réseau ouvert où les gens peuvent se connecter et développer des synergies entre leurs différentes activités. Il se met en place grâce à la combinaison dun réseau Internet et de rencontres physiques. En participant à Synergiehub, vous êtes invités à entrer dans un village global qui est construit sur les principes de partage pair à pair, la pensée holistique et une culture de participation ouverte.</p>
<p>Le Synergiehub accueille des gens de tous les pays, de tous âge et de tous les niveaux sociaux en donnant support aux projets locaux. Elle établit également de nombreuses collaborations autour du monde. La réalisation et la forme de Synergiehub dépendent des personnes qui sy engagent. Pour cette raison, une grande diversité de projets, tous utiles pour lavenir de notre société, en découle.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>Écoles libre et démocratiques à Mont-Soleil</strong></span></p>
<p>Groupe de travail sur lidée dune école libre et démocratique à Mont-Soleil. Il sagit dune école particulière répondant aux critères suivants : aucun programme obligatoire nest déterminé pour les élèves. Tant que possible, tout ce qui concerne la vie scolaire commune sera réglé sur une base démocratique pour laquelle chaque membre de la communauté aura une voix. Chaque étudiant peut se déplacer librement dans lécole tant que cela ne limite pas la liberté dautrui ou quil nagit pas contre les règles établies collectivement. Ces écoles donnent loccasion à leurs élèves dapprendre lautonomie dans lapprentissage.<br />
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<p><strong><span style="font-size:18px">Voisinage 2300</span></strong></p>
<p>500 personnes se sont rencontrées à La Chaux-de-Fonds avec un souhait en commun: créer un voisinage, au sens large, dans le but de profiter dun lien de proximité, de créer des lieux de rencontres, de pouvoir partager les préoccupations du quotidien et trouver des solutions ensemble.<br />
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<p><span style="font-size:18px"><strong>La Coopérative Intégrale Catalane</strong></span></p>
<p>Coopérative : Projet qui pratique lautogestion économique et politique avec la participation égalitaire de ses membres. Légalement elle prend cette forme juridique.</p>
<p>Intégrale : Parce quelle comprend tous les éléments basiques dune économie comme le sont la production, la consommation, le financement et une monnaie propre. Aussi parce quelle prétend intégrer tous les secteurs dactivité nécessaires pour vivre.</p>
<p><span style="font-size:16px"><strong>En fonction du territoire (ici la Catalogne)</strong></span></p>
<p>La Coopérative Intégrale Catalane utilise depuis 2010 différents outils pour générer des postes de travail indépendants mis en réseau à travers la structure internationale Freedom Coop. Lutilisation de ces outils sest transformée en développement stratégique pour obtenir les ressources économiques nécessaires qui permettent la construction dun processus dautonomie.</p>
<p>Avec Freedom Coop cette stratégie se répand au niveau européen. Une des fonctions importantes prévue pour Freedom Coop, est de se libérer du financement de lEtat/capitalisme et de les utiliser pour la construction dautogestion au niveau local/régional/global. </p>
<p>Dautre part, leur objectif de renforcer au maximum la collaboration, la capacité à soutenir et à favoriser des projets de coopération dans le monde entier, du local au global, et de faciliter la collaboration entre eux.</p>
<span class="small">12.10.2016, 9:16</span>Wed, 12 Oct 2016 09:16:00 GMTRichard Moore on the Electric Universe and Climate Changehttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Richard-Moore-on-the-Electric-Universe-and%96Climate-Change/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Richard-Moore-on-the-Electric-Universe-and%96Climate-Change/<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wUHn5pwytgI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen ">[Video]</iframe></p>
<span class="small">26.3.2016, 22:50</span>Sat, 26 Mar 2016 22:50:00 GMTVerpasst: Eine grosse Chance für ein krisensicheres Geldhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Verpasst-Eine-grosse-Chance-f%FCr-ein-krisensicheres-Geld/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Verpasst-Eine-grosse-Chance-f%FCr-ein-krisensicheres-Geld/<p>
<div id="fb-root"></div><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));</script><div class="fb-post" data-href="https://www.facebook.com/zumbrunn/posts/10156612527075596" data-width="500"><div class="fb-xfbml-parse-ignore"><blockquote cite="https://www.facebook.com/zumbrunn/posts/10156612527075596">Posted by <a href="https://www.facebook.com/zumbrunn">Chris Zumbrunn</a> on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/zumbrunn/posts/10156612527075596">Monday, February 29, 2016</a></blockquote></div></div>
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<span class="small">29.2.2016, 14:12</span>Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:12:00 GMTDecentralised Jokeshttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Decentralized-Jokes/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Decentralized-Jokes/<p>amnonbarnea and bullno1 <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/decentralizeweb/comments/3qfab2/decentralized_jokes/">on reddit:</a></p>
<p>Q: I'm having trouble finding decent jokes about decentralization. help anyone?</p>
<p>A: Good ones are hard to find because they are all over the place.</p>
<span class="small">29.1.2016, 13:50</span>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:50:00 GMTThe numbers of the day: 62 vs 50% and 1% vs 99%http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/The-numbers-of-the-day-62-vs-50-1-vs-99/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/The-numbers-of-the-day-62-vs-50-1-vs-99/<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">So, 62 people own as much as half of the world population. And in related news, 1% own as much as 99% <a href="https://t.co/38gnQrLPBS">https://t.co/38gnQrLPBS</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/wef?src=hash">#wef</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/davos?src=hash">#davos</a></p>&mdash; Chris Zumbrunn (@zumbrunn) <a href="https://twitter.com/zumbrunn/status/689216764014661633">January 18, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async="async" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
<p><img src="/static/2016/62-billionaires.jpg" /></p>
<span class="small">18.1.2016, 23:50</span>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 23:50:00 GMTWhy Wikipedia might be the most important invention everhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Why-Wikipedia-might-be-the-most-important-invention-ever/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Why-Wikipedia-might-be-the-most-important-invention-ever/<p><img src="/static/2016/wikipedia-logo-v2-svg.png" width="560" /></p>
<p>Manu Saadia on <a href="http://fusion.net/story/256371/wikipedia-15-years-old/">fusion.net</a>:</p>
<p>[...] The more the internet crowds flocked to it, the better Wikipedia became. Thanks to the embrace and involvement of its users, and a software platform that was specifically designed for that collaborative purpose, Wikipedia gradually turned into an evolving, self-corrective and self-improving entity.</p>
<p>[...] It fits the definition [of a public good] to a tee. Wikipedia is non-rival, that is, my usage doesnt limit somebody else from using it at the same time; and it is non-excludable [...]</p>
<p>"[...] As a public good, Wikipedia generates incredible positive externalities: it creates much more value to society than what it actually costs in money, in terms of power consumed by its servers and editors time. [...]"</p>
<p>Now that [my son] can type on his own, he searches Wikipedia himself. He is growing up knowing that any question on any topic has an answer online. The Encyclopedia is always there, in his dads pocket or on the familys iPad. This is not just comforting. It is mind-expanding. It fosters wild and unimpeded curiosity: one question leads naturally to another question and another one and another ad infinitum. Knowledge becomes a game of chance, an expedition, with hypertext links and search boxes as propellers.[...]"</p>
<p>[...] Thanks to that other public good, the worldwide web, Wikipedia is allowing for something similar, but at a much quicker pace and on a vastly more massive scale. It is hard to predict what untold progress and social transformations lie ahead of us as a result of such intensification in the free flow of knowledge. [...]</p>
<span class="small">17.1.2016, 12:15</span>Sun, 17 Jan 2016 12:15:00 GMTDecentralized Autonomous Popcorn Timehttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/DecentralizedAutonomousPopcornTime/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/DecentralizedAutonomousPopcornTime/<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Decentralized Autonomous Popcorn Time by <a href="https://twitter.com/jgreenhall">@jgreenhall</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vor7P231Vz">https://t.co/Vor7P231Vz</a></p>&mdash; Chris Zumbrunn (@zumbrunn) <a href="https://twitter.com/zumbrunn/status/687977827543724033">January 15, 2016</a></blockquote> <script async="async" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 12:43:13 GMTRSS murderers, some must rebuild bridges you have willfully destroyedhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/RSS-murderers-some-must-rebuild-bridges-you-have-wilfully-destroyed/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/RSS-murderers-some-must-rebuild-bridges-you-have-wilfully-destroyed/<p>From the README of <a href="https://github.com/sebsauvage/rss-bridge">Sébastien Sauvage's RSS-bridge:</a></p>
<p>Dear so-called "social" websites.</p>
<p>Your catchword is "share", but you don't want us to share. You want to keep us within your walled gardens. That's why you've been removing RSS links from webpages, hiding them deep on your website, or removed RSS entirely, replacing it with crippled or demented proprietary API. <b>FUCK YOU.</b></p>
<p>You're not social when you hamper sharing by removing RSS. You're happy to have customers creating content for your ecosystem, but you don't want this content out - a content you do not even own. Google Takeout is just a gimmick. We want our data to flow, we want RSS.</p>
<p>We want to share with friends, using open protocols: RSS, XMPP, whatever. Because no one wants to have your service with your applications using your API force-feeding them. Friends must be free to choose whatever software and service they want.</p>
<p>We are rebuilding bridges you have wilfully destroyed.</p>
<p>Get your shit together: Put RSS back in.</p>
<span class="small">30.9.2015, 14:40</span>Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:40:00 GMTOutcomes of the Decentralise Now Gatheringhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Outcomes-of-the-Decentralise-Now-Gathering/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Outcomes-of-the-Decentralise-Now-Gathering/<div>The Decentralise Now conference gathering held on Mont-Soleil, St-Imier in the Jura Mountains of Switzerland from the 17th to the 21st of September drew the participation of altogether 64 changemakers from all around the world. Some came for a stay over the entire gathering and beyond and are still on site now, collaborating together on their projects. Some came for a few days, individual workshops, or participated via the online video conference stream that was running throughout the entire event.<br />
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The gathering encouraged the alliance of efforts many changemakers and activists are involved with already throughout the world. Rather than attempting to create yet another project, organisation or movement, the gathering at its essence focused on empowering the existing network of actors for transformative change. <br />
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Following an experimental Co-opathon during the weeks leading up to the gathering, which experimented with online gift circles, a concept where participants share requests and offers, the Decentralise Now gathering collaborated with OccupyCafe.org, to extend this concept throughout the gathering. <br />
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This reactivation of the OccupyCafe community integrated real time workshops on the property of the Decentrale cooperative with additional online participants who could both see and hear us as we discussed global issues of importance to all of us, and they could speak up and join in whenever they wanted. <br />
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The timing of this gathering was to commemorate the first protest in New York on the 17th of September , 2011 in New York. It also drew others from other disciplines of activism such as the environmentalists of the Permaculture and Rainbow as well as activists from the anarchists and squatter backgrounds.<br />
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<img src="http://decentrale.ch/static/dezentrale.org/images/gatheringcharts.jpg" height="400" border="0" width="534" /> <br />
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Some of the workshops were purely online facilitation and conferencing, whilst others were actual physical workshops watched by online participants. Using this dynamic approach, we were able to connect more people together who would normally never have the opportunity to travel to a specific location due to economic or time restraints. <br />
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The gathering was also an opportunity to discuss details of a project that would make the Decentrale property mostly solar powered and producing more energy than it needs, without changing the appearance of the historic building. This will convert the project into a model of energy and heating sustainability using pioneering technology developed and manufactured in the local area. It will be designed to be able to operate entirely off grid with the flick of a switch. This will also make the Decentrale an additional eco-tourist attraction in the heart of the Swiss Energy-Park, which will integrate well with our other projects and activities. <br />
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It is of course in line with the ethos of the Decentrale project overall, to decentralise energy production and become independent of fossil fuels. The Decentrale is after all also a part of the Permavillage project, which aims at essential local self-sufficiency in all regards, from the vegetables to the energy needs. <br />
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From a more global perspective, what did come out of the gathering is the need to further integrate with other disciplines and to respect their journeys. Each counter culture has its own history, traditions and norms. It was and remains a challenge to find a way to bring the best of each to the fore and to respect the boundaries of its neighbour. <br />
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Our first meetings were about introducing the vision of &#8220;Decentralise Now!&#8221; and the importance of decentralisation, and learning what each person had done to find this space. Each person introduced themselves and why they had decided to join &#8220;the coalition of the willing&#8221;. Essentially, our aim was to create such an open space for a collaborative changes to happen in the world. To explain that we wish to serve as a hub or node for bringing different groups together to find a way forward globally &#8211; socio- economically, politically and environmentally. <br />
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With the tool of the gift economy or gift circle we were asked to make our requests to &#8220;the universe&#8221;... and once this was done we were asked to let our offers also be known - that is what we specifically had to offer the forum. This could be in the form of time for projects or other practical help to assist others in their struggle or work to bring their own projects into being. Participants in the circle included a couple from America who run a internet radio station , a journalist building an alternative news network, a programmer working on the software of a &#8220;global brain&#8221; etc. The gift circle and online participation included people from the USA, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Canada, Finland, Mexico and other regions of the world. <br />
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On Friday Olaf Zanger gave a workshop on alternative currencies and understanding the current banking system and how it works. In this case he did his discourse in the bottom room or lounge area where we sat in front of a roaring fire whilst participants watched from all over the world. <br />
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On Saturday Morning Isabel who runs an internet radio in Spanish gave a talk on how Podemos (literally; &#8220;we can&#8221;) began and its influence around the world and in Spain, as well as its influence particularly to inspire other activist groups in Greece. We had online participants from Mexico as well as Spain and it was also translated into English by a Rainbow guy from Argentina- Sol. This workshop was given upstairs in our lecture room. <br />
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Isabel&#8217;s workshop was followed up by a very interesting discourse on the Enigma Box, presented by Armin. Once installed, the device anonymizes and encrypts all internet traffic of an internet connection and prevents for example illegal spying by government agencies such as the NSA. The principle of the device was explained in simple terms as well as technical terms for those who were interested. <br />
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We also spoke about alternative currencies &#8211; a workshop that was carried through to Sunday and the conclusions we came to were that in order to bypass the reliance on the banks we had to create a user based economy which is independent of centralised control and the whims of the market. The merits of the gift economy were discussed and alternative methods of exchange such as the time bank which exchanges hours for labour as well as regional currencies &#8211; crypto currencies, gold or resources based currencies and existing forms of exchange based on credits. <br />
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On Sunday Robin gave a workshop on the &#8220; Rainbow Revolution, global elites and the state of the planet in terms of the 1 % who manipulate the markets and put the majority of the people, the 99% in a kind of economic slavery. Again the concept of what kind of system would in future replace capitalism was discussed and how we were going to spread this transformation. <br />
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The eventual consensus that came out of the evening talking circle was that any new system that would replace the old would have to be a sustainable and symbiotic one built on culture. A culture that would embrace collaborative efforts and encourage synergy with those groups who are already working towards that aim all over the world. For example with independent energy systems, permaculture methodology, free or gift economies that exchange goods and services between each other ...and most of all an ethical trade system that creates healthy ways of dealing with human effects or waste upon other beings and the planet at large. This movement forward would be an enlightening process whereby a &#8220;synergesis&#8221; or a &#8220;state of synergy&#8221; between each &#8221;island of light&#8220; would be created. <br />
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And finally, it was postulated that we should continue repeating the mantra of &#8220;Decentralise Now!&#8221;until it comes into the mainstream psyche.<br />
- To which end this project would retain its primary motive &#8211; not to aim to create an alternative culture, but to help a new primary culture to emerge. It will connect those individuals and projects that are looking for help, assistance, facilitation and inspiration ..or encouragement on their journey of self empowerment. <br />
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In the final analysis it was decided that to do this we would have to further build an alternative media platform which spreads the message to the people of this world who wanted to escape this current matrix of &#8220;mind control&#8221;. <br />
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In this regard, valuable connections with various people active in alternative media projects were made during the gathering. More efforts and more calls for dedicated and committed volunteers will go out to spread this message through these media.<br />
Particularly, the vision came to create a monthly newspaper which will work alongside the existing radio platform which is broadcasted from Mont Soleil already. <br />
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On the final day of the gathering we held a workshop on the possible content and names of such a newspaper and how we could create this new culture in the shadow of the old. <br />
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Finally, other intentional conferences were envisioned using the same tools that were used in this conference specifically the video platform that allows for up to 100 people to participate at the same time excluding those on the chat lines.<br />
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The Decentralise Now Gathering is an open ended invitation for more change makers to come with their ideas and will continue on its mission to put the power back in the hands of the people. ...the 99 % .<br />
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We thank those that attended and helped organise and contributed to the success of this initiative and hope to see you again. <br />
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Faithfully,<br />
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The Decentralise Now Team</div>
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<span class="small">24.9.2015, 21:17</span>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 21:17:00 GMTDecentralise Now Gathering for the 99%http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/DecentraliseNowGatheringforthe99/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/DecentraliseNowGatheringforthe99/<div><img src="/static/2015/decentralisenow-teaser.png" height="220" border="0" width="560" /><br />
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On the 17th of September 2015, the fourth anniversary of the birth of the Occupy movement, you are invited to come as you are to &#8220;the Mountain of the Sun&#8221; and join the first Decentralise Now gathering on Mont-Soleil, Switzerland. <br />
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We need to synergise our efforts to become more effective in creating a new reality, a new world, a new way. It is time to &#8220;Occupy the World&#8220; and create an alliance of the alternatives. This is a call for alliance! <br />
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We do not sit idly by whilst we see countries being economically water-boarded by the banks. We cannot ignore the pressures on everyday people that these austerity measures have created. There is another way. <br />
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We are prepared for a wave of synergism that decentralises the power structures. It is time to create a culture of self-empowerment, synergy and symbiosis between each other and nations. <br />
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We are the people - we are the 99% <br />
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Whether you already are a change maker or want to become one, whether you are Occupy, Anonymous, Transition, Maker, Greens, Pirate, Podemos, Permaculture, Rainbow, Hacker, Open Source, Electronic Frontier, Commons, New Edge, Edgeryder, Danach, Neustart, Anti-WEF, Panarchy, anarcho-this or anarcho-that, social entrepreneur, artist, philanthropist, guerrilla gardener, insider, outsider, this-activist or that-activist, or just somebody that is aware - this call for alliance is to you. <br />
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It is time. Join us to Decentralise Now. In St-Imier, the home of anarchism... where it all began in 1872. We gather on the 17th of September to move ahead. The main event will be an intense collaboration and exchange that weekend, from Friday evening at 19:00 to Sunday at 17:00. This is an open ended gathering. We will continue beyond that weekend and you can join us at any time. <br />
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You are also able to participate online, if you can&#8217;t join us at the D&eacute;centrale on Mont-Soleil, Switzerland. <br />
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WHEN : SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2015 <br />
WHERE: DECENTRALE, MONT SOLEIL, ST-IMIER, SWITZERLAND <br />
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We intend to make this event prix-libre. We will need your financial support. Please expect to expend what you can afford to pay for such an event. If you can give more, please do. If you know people that might be able to make a financial contribution, please encourage them to do so.<br />
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<a href="http://decentralisenow.org/gathering/">Sign up</a> and find more details here on the website <a href="http://decentralisenow.org/gathering/">decentralisenow.org</a>, as they become available.<br />
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<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/decentralisenow/">facebook.com/groups/decentralisenow</a><br />
<a href="https://www.twitter.com/decentralisenow/">twitter.com/decentralisenow</a><br /></div>
<span class="small">1.8.2015, 20:00</span>Sat, 01 Aug 2015 20:00:00 GMTStage dinitiation aux plantes sauvages comestibles et médicinaleshttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Stage-d-initiation-aux-plantes-sauvages-comestibles-et-medicinales/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Stage-d-initiation-aux-plantes-sauvages-comestibles-et-medicinales/<p><b>11-12 juillet 2015</b></p>
<p><i>...apprendre à vivre en harmonie avec la nature nous permet de retrouver l'essence de notre existence...</i></p>
<p>Si tu apprécies les plantes et la nature, voici une opportunité unique pour texercer à reconnaître les plantes comestibles et médicinales de ton environnement, à en cuisiner une partie et à les préparer de diverses manières pour te soigner.
Notre guide sera Jean-François Henry, un passionné de plantes de toutes natures, ayant de nombreuses années d'expérience.</p>
<p><img src="/static/2015/plantes-imgs.png" width="560" /></p>
<h4>OBJECTIFS</h4>
<p><ul>
<li>Reconnaître de nombreuses plantes sauvages comestibles, médicinales et toxiques</li>
<li>Effectuer des cueillettes sélectives, respectant les populations rencontrées</li>
<li>Apprendre à cuisiner une partie des plantes récoltées</li>
<li>Intégrer à sa vie quotidienne un certain nombre de plantes utiles</li>
<li>Revenir chez soi avec quelques recettes simples de repas, intégrant des plantes sauvages</li>
</ul></p>
<h4>PROGRAMME</h4>
<p><ul>
<li>Balades didactiques dans les prairies et les forêts avoisinantes</li>
<li>Réalisation dun herbier ou prise de photos (optionnel)</li>
<li>Récoltes de plantes comestibles, en particulier jeunes pousses, fleurs, racines et feuilles,</li>
<li>Intégration de ces plantes dans la préparation de "menus sauvages"</li>
<li>Un dossier didactique, comprenant recettes et bibliographie, sera fourni aux participant(e)s</li>
</ul></p>
<h4>RENDEZ-VOUS ET HORAIRES</h4>
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<li>Samedi 11 juillet, 9h00 précises à 22h00 environ</li>
<li>Dimanche 12 juillet, 9h00 précises à 18h 30.</li>
</ul>
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<h4>PARTICIPANT(E)S</h4>
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<li>Toutes personnes intéressées par les plantes, avec ou sans expérience</li>
<li>Les enfants de plus de 8 ans sont les bienvenus, si possible accompagnés d'un adulte</li>
</ul></p>
<h4>HÉBERGEMENT</h4>
<p><ul>
<li>Les personnes qui habitent dans la région pourront rentrer chez elles le soir. Pour celles qui viennent de plus loin, la Coopérative « La Décentrale » dispose de dortoirs et dune salle de bain.</li>
<li>Il est possible darriver déjà vendredi 10 juillet dès 18h00. Dans ce cas, le préciser à linscription !</li>
</ul></p>
<p>Nous utiliserons la cuisine de la maison.</p>
<h4>PRIX</h4>
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<li>Le stage peut être réglé par donation volontaire. Pour couvrir les frais dorganisation et dachats, ainsi que la rémunération de lanimateur, nous estimons quun prix indicatif de 120.- CHF ou  serait plutôt correct pour ce genre dactivité.</li>
<li>Si vous ne pouvez venir que pour un jour, ce serait 65.- CHF ou  la journée.</li>
</ul>
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<p>Gratuit pour les enfants d'âge scolaire. Le prix ne doit pas constituer un obstacle à la participation ! (Arrangements sur demande pour couples, familles et personnes à revenu modeste !)</p>
<h4>INFORMATIONS ET INSCRIPTIONS:</h4>
<p>Pour réserver sa place:</p>
<p>
contacter Chris Zumbrunn <a href="mailto:info@decentrale.ch">info@decentrale.ch</a><br />
La Décentrale, Mont-Soleil 59<br />
2610 Mont-Soleil (Suisse)<br />
tél. +41 32 941 41 41</p>
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<p>Ne tardez pas à vous inscrire, le nombre de participants étant limité !</p>
<h4>QUI EST JEAN-FRANÇOIS HENRY ?</h4>
<p>Praticien en Thérapeutiques Naturelles, Jean-François Henry a près de 30 ans dexpérience en massage essentiel, réflexologie, polarité, aromathérapie et phytothérapie. Intéressé par les plantes depuis lenfance, il partage ses connaissances avec naturel et passion. Dans son enseignement, il incite à aiguiser les sens, exercer la mémoire et développer lintuition.</p>
<h4>QUE DOIS-JE APPORTER ?</h4>
<p>Petits casse-croûtes pour samedi et dimanche midi; pour la participation aux repas : un peu de farine complète ou bise de céréales bio, 1 légume, fruits, boissons à choix; grand cahier pour prendre des notes et élaborer un herbier (autre possibilité: prendre des photos); bande adhésive transparente sur dérouleur (« scotch »); 1 m de ficelle (pour porter le dérouleur autour du cou !); couteau de poche type « Opinel »; un grand sac en papier contenant plusieurs petits sachets en papier ou en tissu pour les récoltes; gants en caoutchouc (pour récolter les orties et autres plantes piquantes !); chaussures de marche et chapeau; en cas de pluie: imperméable, parapluie, bottes ou chaussures imperméables; chaussures dintérieur et éventuellement, livres sur les plantes, loupe, lampe de poche, instrument de musique ou de percussion.<br />
Ta bonne énergie, ta joie, ta lumière !</p>
<h4>COMMENT ARRIVER ?</h4>
<p>Le stage a lieu à « La Décentrale », Mont-Soleil 59, 2610 Mont-Soleil (Suisse) tél. 0041 329 41 41 41</p>
<p><b>En voiture:</b></p>
<p>Depuis Bienne, passer, soit par Tramelan, Les Breuleux, Cerneux-Veusil et, de là, la route du Mont-Soleil ; soit par Sonceboz, St-Imier, puis monter la petite route du Mont-Soleil (attention, passage impossible sous le funiculaire avec un véhicule de plus de 2.60 m !)</p>
<p>Depuis La Chaux-de-Fonds, par La Ferrière, Cerneux-Veusil et, de là, la route du Mont- Soleil.</p>
<p><b>En train, en funiculaire et à pied:</b></p>
<p>Prendre le train pour Saint-Imier, puis monter avec le funiculaire du Mont-Soleil (à 10 mn à pied, de la gare CFF). A la sortie du funiculaire, prendre la rue à gauche. La Décentrale se trouve à environ 200 m, sur la droite.</p>
<p><img src="/static/2015/plantes-imgs-2.png" width="560" /></p>
<span class="small">27.6.2015, 8:09</span>Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:09:00 GMTTesla: All Our Patent Are Belong To Youhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Tesla-All-Our-Patent-Are-Belong-To-You/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Tesla-All-Our-Patent-Are-Belong-To-You/<p>Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla yesterday:</p>
<p>Yesterday, there was a wall of Tesla patents in the lobby of our Palo Alto headquarters. That is no longer the case. They have been removed, in the spirit of the open source movement, for the advancement of electric vehicle technology.</p>
<p>Tesla Motors was created to accelerate the advent of sustainable transport. If we clear a path to the creation of compelling electric vehicles, but then lay intellectual property landmines behind us to inhibit others, we are acting in a manner contrary to that goal. Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology.</p>
<p>When I started out with my first company, Zip2, I thought patents were a good thing and worked hard to obtain them. And maybe they were good long ago, but too often these days they serve merely to stifle progress, entrench the positions of giant corporations and enrich those in the legal profession, rather than the actual inventors. After Zip2, when I realized that receiving a patent really just meant that you bought a lottery ticket to a lawsuit, I avoided them whenever possible.</p>
<p>At Tesla, however, we felt compelled to create patents out of concern that the big car companies would copy our technology and then use their massive manufacturing, sales and marketing power to overwhelm Tesla. We couldnt have been more wrong. The unfortunate reality is the opposite: electric car programs (or programs for any vehicle that doesnt burn hydrocarbons) at the major manufacturers are small to non-existent, constituting an average of far less than 1% of their total vehicle sales.</p>
<p>At best, the large automakers are producing electric cars with limited range in limited volume. Some produce no zero emission cars at all.</p>
<p>Given that annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the carbon crisis. By the same token, it means the market is enormous. Our true competition is not the small trickle of non-Tesla electric cars being produced, but rather the enormous flood of gasoline cars pouring out of the worlds factories every day.</p>
<p>We believe that Tesla, other companies making electric cars, and the world would all benefit from a common, rapidly-evolving technology platform. </p>
<p>Technology leadership is not defined by patents, which history has repeatedly shown to be small protection indeed against a determined competitor, but rather by the ability of a company to attract and motivate the worlds most talented engineers. We believe that applying the open source philosophy to our patents will strengthen rather than diminish Teslas position in this regard.</p>
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<span class="small">13.6.2014, 22:07</span>Fri, 13 Jun 2014 22:07:00 GMTOwn The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Timehttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Own-The-Change-Building-Economic-Democracy-One-Worker-Co-op-at-a-Time/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Own-The-Change-Building-Economic-Democracy-One-Worker-Co-op-at-a-Time/<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8G1-SYMatNc" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen ">[video]</iframe></p>
<span class="small">11.2.2015, 13:09</span>Wed, 11 Feb 2015 13:09:00 GMTThe New Decentralized Internet - MaidSafehttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/The-New-Decentralized-Internet-Maidsafe/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/The-New-Decentralized-Internet-Maidsafe/<p>MAID = Massive Array of Internet Disks; SAFE = Secure Access For Everyone</p>
<p><iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RdGH40oUVDY" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen ">[video]</iframe></p>
<p>MaidSafe is an open-source program that enables a decentralized internet platform, called the SAFE Network. MaidSafe distributes all data on the network without the need for centralized servers. Data stored on the network is either encrypted or cryptographically signed by MaidSafe connected applications (clients). In either case the network itself cannot decrypt any of the data. </p>
<p>The MaidSafe system turns all connected devices into SAFE Network nodes that collectively store data for all MaidSafe users. MaidSafe allows public and private cloud data storage and processing within the SAFE Network. Data storage is automatically decentralized. The data is spread redundantly across many disks and devices owned and managed by many different users. No one person or corporation has an intact copy of a user's file.</p>
<p>To account for resource usage, the network uses Safecoin transactions. Safecoin Is a coin that is generated and protected by the SAFE network and stays on the SAFE network. The network can confirm and exchange coin ownership via a digitally signed authority from the coins last owner. This operation is network atomic which basically means the network will make sure all copies update to show the transaction. This is a different approach to the blockchain mechanism employed by bitcoin.</p>
<p>The SAFE network allows many millions of transactions per second and the larger the network the more transactions per second can be executed. Safecoin only holds the last and current owner. It does this to make sure the current owner has signed authority from the last owner to take ownership. This allows coins to be transferred between people very easily and without delay. Safecoins use a proof of resource to create coins and this is a system that is waste free, so the proof is that a node or application is providing immediate value to society.</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/maidsafe">https://github.com/maidsafe</a></p>
<p><a href="http://maidsafe.org/">http://maidsafe.org/</a></p>
<span class="small">6.2.2015, 14:30</span>Fri, 06 Feb 2015 14:30:00 GMTRingoJS 0.11 is out!http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/RingoJS-0.11-is-out/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/RingoJS-0.11-is-out/<h3>Changelog for RingoJS 0.11</h3>
<p>Release date: 22 December 2014</p>
<h3>Core and Modules</h3>
<ul><li>Dropped Narwhal support</li>
<li><code>addToClasspath()</code> throws an exception if it fails</li>
<li>Changed <code>redirect()</code> and <code>notModified()</code> to return the JsgiResponse instance instead of a plain JS</li>
<li>Added missing <code>removeAllListeners()</code> proxy method to JavaEventEmitter</li>
<li>Added <code>y64encode</code>, <code>y64decode</code>, <code>isInt</code>, <code>isFloat</code>, <code>isUpperCase</code> and <code>isLowerCase</code> to <code>ringo/utils/strings</code></li>
<li>Minor improvements in the <code>fs</code> module</li>
<li>Removed UTC based calculation for <code>dates.diff()</code></li>
<li>Added charset to JsModuleLoader's <code>getReader()</code> call</li>
<li>Allow setting of session cookie domain and path too</li>
<li><code>module.resolve()</code> was broken on windows</li>
<li>Made httpserver more configurable</li></ul>
<h3>Documentation</h3>
<ul><li>Improved the module documentation, added a lot of examples</li>
<li>Droped Maven's pom.xml: no longer maintained</li>
<li>Building a RingoJS-package for distribution now requires an empty /packages directory</li>
<li>Fixed JavaDoc errors</li></ul>
<h3>General</h3>
<ul><li>Switched to Jetty 8</li>
<li>Improved the Google App Engine skeleton</li>
<li>Dependencies: Instead of .orbit dependency: use direct download for Jetty</li>
<li>Adds new ant build target <code>jsdocs</code></li></ul>
<p>Download: <a href="http://ringojs.org/download">http://ringojs.org/download</a></p>
<span class="small">22.12.2014, 19:18</span>Mon, 22 Dec 2014 19:18:00 GMTJoin the 2014 Beau-Sejour Gatherings, November 14-30http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Join-the-2014-Beau-Sejour-Gatherings/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Join-the-2014-Beau-Sejour-Gatherings/<p>In addition to this years main <a href="http://st-imier.org/">Beau-Sejour weekend gathering from November 21st to 23rd,</a> we want to offer you some additional possibilities to join our discussions and brainstorm some ideas about how our societies should go forward. Just <a href="http://doodle.com/k9shkrd7q7mpm778">fill in this Doodle</a> and let's see who is here during which sessions - and we'll spontaneously accommodate the topics to shared interests of the participants of each session.</p>
<p>Just fill in the times that work for you in the Doodle here: <a href="http://doodle.com/k9shkrd7q7mpm778">http://doodle.com/k9shkrd7q7mpm778</a></p>
<p>This years main Beau-Sejour gathering will follow up on the results of the previous years and the calling topic will be... </p>
<h3>"Finding the Seed for the New System"</h3>
<p>During last years gathering, one central topic that emerged was how the workings of current democracy, finance and civil society are all heavily influenced by a single defining pattern, circling around the way money is created.</p>
<p>This pattern defines the evolution of virtually all aspects of our current societies. This year, we will be searching for new patterns, which can encourage the growing of the new in the shadow of the old. </p>
<p>This years Beau-Sejour gathering will for the first time be taking place on the La Décentrale property up on Mont-Soleil, above St-Imier.</p>
<p>Itinerary for the <b>"Finding the Seed for the New System"</b> Beau-Sejour weekend:</p>
<p><b>Friday, November 21, 2014</b></p>
<p>You are welcome to join us on Friday already at 17:00 for us to be cooking and eating dinner together. </p>
<p>At <b>19:00</b> we all meet for our evening session. Together, we will review and discuss the topics that have emerged during the 2012 and 2013 gatherings and what has happened as a result with the creation of the Permavillage and La Décentrale projects on Mont-Soleil. We will talk about assumptions we've come to last year, like how the workings of current democracy, finance and civil society are all heavily influenced by a single defining pattern, circling around the way money is created, and how this pattern defines the evolution of virtually all aspects of our current societies. This will give us a head start, laying out the terrain we will be covering on Saturday. At around <b>21:30</b> we will end the Friday evening session.</p>
<p><b>Saturday, November 22, 2014</b></p>
<p>At <b>9:30</b> we will start our morning session, prepare and eat lunch together around noon, continue with our afternoon session at 13:30 and end Saturdays session at <b>18:30</b>. There will be the option of having dinner together as well for those of you that like to stick around Saturday night.</p>
<p><b>Sunday, November 23, 2014</b></p>
<p>Again, at <b>9:30</b> we will start our morning session, prepare and eat lunch together around noon, continue with our afternoon session at 13:30 and end the 2014 Beau-Sejour gathering at <b>16:00</b> on Sunday. </p>
<p><b>Accommodation</b></p>
<p>There are beds available for you to sleep in the house of La Décentrale, so there should be no need to look for other accommodation. If you like to stay here during the nights, please let me know, so I can make sure there is a bed reserved for you. </p>
<p><b>How to get here</b></p>
<p>This year for the first time, the Beau-Sejour gathering will take place at La Décentrale on Mont-Soleil. </p>
<p>You can easily find your way to Mont-Soleil by public transportation, taking the funicular up from St-Imier:</p>
<p><a href="http://funisolaire.ch/index.php?page=p/horaires">http://funisolaire.ch/index.php?page=p/horaires</a></p>
<p>La Décentrale is located just 150 meters from the top station of the funicular.</p>
<p>Looking forward to seeing you all!</p>
<p><a href="http://st-imier.org/">st-imier.org</a></p>
<p><img width="560" src="/static/2014/map.png" /></p>
<span class="small">13.11.2014, 13:50</span>Thu, 13 Nov 2014 13:50:00 GMTLa Décentrale Mont-Soleilhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/La-Decentrale-Mont-Soleil/
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<p>Das Genossenschaftsprojekt La Décentrale auf dem Mont-Soleil ist Treffpunkt und Spielraum
für Menschen, um Ideen für Innovationen zu entwickeln, erproben und erfahren. Innovationen,
die sich bewähren, tragen zu einem Kulturwandel zu einer selbstorganisierten
Zivilgesellschaft mit nachhaltigen, dezentralen und resilienten Strukturen bei.</p>
<p>In La Décentrale treffen sich Menschen mit unterschiedlichen Muttersprachen, c'est pour ça that we speak and write dans des langues mêlée.</p>
<div>With the property La D&eacute;centrale, we are setting the seed for the Permavillage Mont-Soleil, a social space, open for innovative approaches to current and future challenges in society. <br />
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While this will be a place to live, it just as importantly is a place to make a living. With the Permavillage and La D&eacute;centrale at its core, we want to create less of a living community as is typically the case in eco-village projects and more a collaborative, innovative environment with an entrepreneurial spirit, where individuals and groups can connect and leverage their synergies. <br />
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We will be practicing and evolving forms of openly collaborative and socially responsible living, sustainable food production, focusing on better enabling and optimizing the use of already existing infrastructure and buildings, designing for inter-generational living, with a cultural, educational and economic exchange between urban and rural areas, planning around a local economy and a high degree of self-reliance, while building resilient ties with the economy at large.<br />
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The Permavillage does everything to encourage open doors and open structures within and towards its neighbours, the local economy and society at large. We want everybody to be able to contribute and participate. This open space shall be provided and kept, free of any expectation that the offered opportunities are utilized as anticipated. The doors shall remain open and the space be held.</div>
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The activities this project will include
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<div>At the beginning, La D&eacute;centrale will start its activities with multi-day seminars for small groups on topics related in different ways to the Permavillage project. Further economic activities will be the constructing of small housing, yurts, and roulottes, the renovation of the main building in various phases, as well as the permaculture project, a buvette, and the processing, refining and preservation of foods, including a line of local gastro-foods offered in partnering buvettes and restaurants in the area. <br />
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Further activities such as various kinds of product recycling and reuse projects, peer-to-peer education projects, alternative media projects, graphic design and software development projects or a political music festival, all are not beyond the scope of intended uses for the property either.<br />
The permaculture project will initially focus on producing vegetables for a subscription based veggie-basket service in and around the hamlet on the one hand, and offering introductory permaculture courses on the other hand. <br />
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In collaboration with the local farmers, we will work to integrate additional farm land currently used for dairy farming and meat production, enabling the permaculture project to expand beyond La D&eacute;centrale. The project will expand to include the cultivation of locally uncommon plants with high nutritional and health benefits, such as khaki and amaranth.<br />
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One of the main objectives of La D&eacute;centrale will be to offer an environment and a place where people can come together to work on evolving common vision between different individuals and groups. Beyond the scope of the Permavillage itself, we will also start to do this same kind of work together with other organizations, such as Initiatives of Change in Caux, the Green Phoenix Congress on Schweibenalp, and Danach in Zurich or Vision 2035 in Bienne. The seminar offerings of La D&eacute;centrale will emphasize these aspects.</div>
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How it will work
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<div>The La D&eacute;centrale cooperative will be the proprietor of the property and negotiate service agreements with individuals and associations, making the property available as a resource for projects that are in line with the objectives of the organization, as described in this document.<br />
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The projects will feature a complementary economy based on an alternative currency that will encourage a large degree of gift economy, sharing and exchanging, and an interest free local money system, reducing the need for projects to generate profits in official currencies. To this effect, the cooperative will develop a decentralized alternative currency that creates money by directly funding projects. <br />
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The members of the cooperative will have funding rights in relation to the amount of their shares. In a semestrial process, the cooperative will determine the amount of new currency being issued, and select the projects eligible for funding. This will be followed by the individual members allocating their share of newly funded currency to these projects. This ability constitutes the primary benefit that members receive for their financial participation in the cooperative. As the cooperative grows, it intends to provide its members with liquid democracy based funding mechanisms.</div>
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Why the property and its location are ideal for this project
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<div>La D&eacute;centrale is a 10 room, 1904 built art-nouveau villa, surrounded by a 1 hectare property with mature park trees, sunny meadows and a small forest area. The house has in recent years been reverted to it's original state and will be minimally renovated to preserve it's historic value. It is structurally in good condition and is on the list of buildings for monumental protection.<br />
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La D&eacute;centrale is located in the heart of the hamlet Mont-Soleil, at 1200m altitude, near the mountain top and on the mountain ridge that carry the same name. Mont-Soleil is well known for its renewable energy installations, Switzerland's largest solar power station and wind-power plant. It serves as a research and demonstration facility that attracts a significant amount of visitors. Mont-Soleil is also well known for its astronomical observatory and its Vipassana meditation center. <br />
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Mont-Soleil is reachable by a funicular from the community of St-Imier, 400m lower down in the Vallon de St-Imier, which in turn is connected to the Swiss railway network. Also, small roads connect Mont-Soleil with St-Imier and in the other direction with the other villages of the Franche-Montagnes plateau. <br />
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The Mont-Soleil hamlet is not currently in any construction zone and is governed under agricultural zoning restrictions, with exceptions granted on a case by case basis. Establishing a new zoning plan for the hamlet is a long overdue promise of the community of St-Imier, but as was seen based on an information evening earlier this year, will be controversial, with different groups of people unhappy for several different reasons about solutions proposed by the community. There is an opportunity to develop an alternative proposal for a special "Permavillage" zoning plan that will be better able to accommodate and balance the various interests at play. The newly formed, local alternative-green party "Libertaire" will support us in developing this project, mobilizing support by the people and getting the political backing and approval.<br />
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The region belongs to the state of Berne, but with some neighboring districts having gained independance to form the state and republic of Jura, the Bernese-Jura region is being granted special autonomous rights. On November 24, 2013, the peoples of the region voted against a proposed formation of a larger canton Jura. With that, the region is set on a path to further strengthen its autonomous status.<br />
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St-Imier was at the center of history in 1872, when anti-authoritarian worker-associations from around the world gathered for the Congress of St-Imier to form the first international anarchist organization. The anarchism movement has advanced since then in many different regions in the world and has flourished to an abundance of political philosophies and related movements, such as the green movement and more recently the Occupy movement, which has sprawled a large set of new bottom-up and grass-root-democratic organizations active today.<br />
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All these historic dimensions tie in well with different aspects that are at the core of the vision for the La D&eacute;centrale property and the Permavillage project, such as permaculture principles, the transition town network and eco-villages. With the Permavillage we intend to embrace this abundance of influences and innovate to a new level of collaborative living.<br />
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We want the Permavillage to be a project that integrates well with the context that it is placed in. The environmental, socio-economic, historic and political circumstances of the area make Mont-Soleil an ideal fit for this project.<br />
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<a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Soleil" title="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mont-Soleil">de.wikipedia.org</a></div>
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Aspects of the organizational structure
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<div>During the initial phase of the project, special consideration will be given to develop a solid framework for the organization's communication and decision making processes. A set of non-binding conventions should evolve based on best practices for various circumstances. <br />
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While the members of the organization together form the formal general assembly, the organization is directed by the organisation's board, which forms ad-hoc by inviting the organizations members to participate. Based on meritocratic principles, the general assembly can also elect non-members for eligibility to participate in board meeting sessions. The board uses high quality participatory processes to whenever possible form unanimous outcomes regarding the selection of individuals and associations and their ability to use resources of the property for their proposed and/or ongoing projects. The project will collaborate with the association Participate.ch to develop and evolve the facilitation methods that are used in these meeting sessions of the board.<br />
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Beyond the board meeting sessions, the organization will follow open organisation practices, inspired by the 40 years of experience gained in the open source software development movement, striking a balance between basic-democratic and meritocratic organization structures. <br />
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We currently use openly shared documents such as on Google Drive and Pages on iCloud for collaborative editing, Loomio for exchanging thoughts on ideas and concerns and voting in the spirit of temperature checks, and Trello for an open team based organizational workflow on tasks. The project generally encourages anybody and everybody to contribute and participate in its processes.<br />
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The various projects of individuals and associations, to which the La D&eacute;centrale organisation makes its resources available, will in principle be free to organize their internal affairs as they see fit, but such organization structures may be taken into account as part of the selection process. Another selection criteria should be the openness of the projects. Are they structured and documented in ways that make it easy for other individuals and organizations to participate or to learn from the project and duplicated it elsewhere?<br />
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The La D&eacute;centrale organization will also build structures and knowledge networks that will aid the various projects to succeed. As such, it will operate as an incubation hub for the new ventures of the projects, making the required professional support available to them, providing administrative support and aiding to find finances.</div>
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How you can get involved
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<div>If what you are reading here seem like a call for you, do not hesitate and just get in touch with us. We will be glad to provide more detailed information regarding the aspects that interest you further. <br />
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You can reach us via email at info@decentrale.ch or by calling 032 941 41 41.</div>
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<span class="small">1.8.2014, 22:00</span>Fri, 01 Aug 2014 22:00:00 GMTCulture of Collaborationhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Culture-of-Collaboration/
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<span class="small">3.7.2014, 9:59</span>Thu, 03 Jul 2014 09:59:00 GMTLes idées principales de l'anarchisme et la critique de l'Union Européennehttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Les-idees-principales-de-l-anarchisme-et-la-critique-de-l-Union-Europeenne/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Les-idees-principales-de-l-anarchisme-et-la-critique-de-l-Union-Europeenne/<p><b>L'anarchisme  il faudrait plutôt parler d'anarchismes au pluriel  incarne l'idéal d'une vie sans gouvernement ni domination : aucun homme ne doit dominer un autre homme. Reste toutefois à débattre dun point de vue anarchiste ce que signifie "gouverner" et quel degré d'organisation de la société est acceptable. Le grand public, de son côté, identifie généralement l'anarchisme au rejet de tout ordre sociétal ou même au terrorisme. Si, historiquement parlant, les anarchistes portent en partie eux-mêmes la responsabilité de ces préjugés, l'anarchisme fut aussi victime d'une propagande négative comme d'ailleurs la démocratie  du moins avant la Révolution Française (voir l'article <a href="http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchisme">http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchisme</a>).</b></p>
<i>de Chris Zumbrunn </i>
<p>Jusqu'au 18ème siècle la démocratie était considérée comme le pouvoir "incontrôlé" du peuple ; elle était plus ou moins équivalente à l'idée qu'on se fera plus tard au 20ème siècle de l' "anarchisme". Aujourd'hui, une démocratie moderne désigne généralement la démocratie représentative caractérisée par des élections parlementaires et parfois gouvernementales tandis que la démocratie directe est souvent perçue comme un idéal utopique. Par rapport à la monarchie et à la dictature, la démocratie comme l'anarchisme sont fondés sur l'idée que la population doit avoir le droit d'organiser son mode de vie. L'anarchisme va tout simplement plus loin dans son exigence d'un droit à l'autogestion et dans la protection des libertés individuelles de l'ensemble de la population comme de ses minorités. </p>
<b>Une société sans domination</b>
<p>Examinons dabord ce que les anarchistes entendent lorsquils demandent l'abolition de toute forme de domination. Les sociologues et les politologues ne sont en général pas en mesure de donner une définition utilisable de « domination » dans la pratique. Une telle définition est cependant nécessaire si l'on veut entamer une discussion utile sur le sujet. Peut-on par exemple parler de "domination" lorsque des décisions, prises de façon démocratique et dans un souci de compromis vis-à-vis de la minorité, se réalisent contre la volonté de quelques personnes ? Admettons que la société ne puisse sorganiser sans décisions qui visent la satisfaction des besoins fondamentaux et une vie en sécurité et que la définition de « domination » implique ce type de décisions. Lexigence fondamentale des anarchistes serait évidemment inacceptable. Les discussions entre les différents courants anarchistes tournent donc souvent autour de la question de savoir quelle dose de "gouvernement" nécessite l'organisation raisonnable de la société. Toutefois, même si l'on ne souscrit pas au rejet de toute forme de "gouvernement", on souhaite réduire le "gouvernement" au minimum nécessaire. </p>
<b>Coopération libre entre individus libres?</b>
<p>L'idée de la collaboration sans coercition entre les hommes est souvent appelée "coopération libre entre individus libres". Que veut dire "coopération libre" ? S'agit-il encore de coopération libre lorsqu'il y a obligation - en accord avec la volonté d'une majorité - de contribuer au bien public, par exemple lorsqu'il s'agit de créer des écoles, des routes, ou des réseaux ferroviaires? Dans les milieux anarchistes, on est souvent davis que chacun doit coopérer avec les autres pour le bien public mais que la coopération volontaire doit suffire sans que la coercition ne devienne nécessaire. Une telle coopération est tout à fait possible comme on peut le voir dans les pratiques en usage dans le développement des spécifications techniques d'Internet ou des logiciels "Open Source" ; on produit ainsi des biens publics dans le cadre d'une structure de coopération de type anarchiste. Espérons que les expériences fructueuses faites dans ce domaine depuis une quarantaine d'années pourront être appliquées dans d'autres domaines de la société. Le postulat de la coopération libre entre des individus libres appliqué dans le plus grand nombre possible de domaines de la vie de la société semble donc souhaitable. Il faudrait y ajouter le postulat que la coercition n'est acceptable que dans les domaines où la coopération libre ne joue pas, si elle se révèle absolument nécessaire pour une production de biens publics souhaités par une majorité et légitimée par voie démocratique. </p>
<b>Rejet de lÉtat</b>
<p>Un autre postulat important de l'anarchisme - et en même temps celui qui provoque la plus grande incompréhension en général - c'est le rejet de lÉtat. Des États nationaux investis, dans un territoire délimité et accepté par la communauté internationale, de la souveraineté de la gestion des affaires publiques dominent toujours le monde actuel. Typiquement, l'Etat dispose d'une capitale à partir de laquelle le pays et la population sont administrés de façon plus ou moins centralisée. C'est cette autorité d'Etat que les anarchistes rejettent et aimeraient remplacer par une autogestion décentralisée des territoires. Des structures quasi étatiques qui se forment à partir d'une coopération impliquant des entités de plus en plus grandes sont tout à fait acceptées par la plupart des gens proches du milieu anarchiste car ils ne considèrent pas de telles structures comme des "États". Lorsqu'ils parlent de "rejet de l'Etat", ils souhaitent avant tout une application conséquente du principe de subsidiarité. Une remarque critique s'impose ici : les structures quasi étatiques émanant de la coopération libre ne sont pas toujours en mesure de garantir la paix, pas plus d'ailleurs, comme le montre l'histoire, que les grands États territoriaux. Il faudrait donc plutôt réfléchir à un modèle d'organisation qui, tout en maintenant les États actuels, pourrait les contenir efficacement par un tissage de liens verticaux et horizontaux entre les différentes entités territoriales (communes, régions, États, organismes internationaux). Ce modèle aurait l'avantage de maintenir la compétence à distribuer les compétences décisionnaires  une compétence qui serait sous contrôle démocratique  dans le giron des États existants, permettant d'éviter ainsi des luttes permanentes autour de ces compétences de décision. </p>
<b>La propriété privée équivaut à du vol</b>
<p>« La propriété, cest le vol ». On doit cette autre idée clef de la tradition anarchiste à Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 - 1865). Il s'agit ici de propriété des moyens de production : quand les hommes doivent travailler pour de l'argent, ils s'exposent considérablement à la domination des propriétaires des moyens de production ou de leurs administrateurs. Celui qui résiste perd ainsi son travail et la pression est d'autant plus grande quand le travail est rare et qu'il existe peu dalternatives sachant quil sagit de la base matérielle de subsistance. C'est pourquoi les anarchistes ont traditionnellement demandé que les moyens de production appartiennent à la collectivité  sans trop définir ce que cela veut dire concrètement. Il serait raisonnable de postuler que cela veut dire que les moyens de production doivent être gérés de façon démocratique.. Ceci pourrait être mis en uvre par des coopératives où chaque nouveau collaborateur devient automatiquement membre de la coopérative et perd ce statut lorsquil la quitte. Les structures associatives pourraient également correspondre à ces postulats. </p>
<p>Il est plus difficile de trouver des formes dorganisation efficaces de léconomie dans sa globalité. Comment réguler les relations entre les différents collectifs? Traditionnellement les anarchistes ont préconisé dorganiser ces relations dans le cadre de réseaux contrôlés à leur tour par les collectifs eux-mêmes  on arriverait ainsi à une sorte de « République des collectifs » - système proche de la Commune de Paris. </p>
<p>De facto, ces idées conduisent malheureusement à une hiérarchisation et une bureaucratisation de la société. La plupart des gens nont ni le temps ni lenvie de passer leur temps dans des réunions interminables et ils ont donc tendance à déléguer leurs compétences à des gestionnaires, ce qui est vrai surtout en ce qui concerne les relations entre différents collectifs. Ainsi sinstalle automatiquement un déséquilibre du savoir entre les individus qui entraîne à son tour un déséquilibre du pouvoir. Sans une organisation relativement indépendante de ces réseaux économiques  ce qui revient à lexistence dun "Etat"  dont la vocation consiste à garantir certains droits fondamentaux de lindividu, on peut très vite aboutir à des situations de pouvoir abusif contraires à lidée dabsence de domination. Le principe de la société sans État peut alors mettre en danger les libertés des individus. La domination des uns par les autres est sans doute liée quelque part à la domination des moyens de production par une minorité. Mais on ne peut pas conclure que cette domination soit simplement résorbée par un collectivisme généralisé. </p>
<p>Une alternative pour régler les relations entre les collectifs consisterait à créer un marché. Mais dans cette hypothèse également, une régulation par une structure étatique serait nécessaire, faute de quoi des monopoles ou oligopoles sinstalleraient très vite  à nouveau contraires à lidée fondamentale dabsence de "gouvernement et de domination". Et il ne serait pas sûr que tous les individus puissent trouver leur place dans un collectif. Cest pour cette raison que de nombreux anarchistes ne croient pas que lEtat doive se dissoudre complètement dans des collectifs autogérés. Proudhon préconise des fédérations de collectivités locales sans État central, ce qui revient à préconiser des États de petite échelle.</p>
<p>Dans une économie de marché qui satisferait aux postulats anarchistes, la création de valeurs stimulée par des crédits et la recherche d'une croissance à tout prix devrait être remplacée par une création de valeurs basée sur des critères de stimulation de l'activité économique ciblés et légitimés démocratiquement. </p>
<b>Ni Dieu, ni maître</b>
<p>Plus important que les formes dorganisation préconisées pour la société par l'anarchisme est son attitude égalitaire et sa perception critique du pouvoir, couplée avec lidée de coopération sans coercition. Une telle attitude nous semble nécessaire pour l'existence durable d'une démocratie qui soit réelle et ne reste pas simplement formelle, et pour un État qui soit au service de la population. On peut ainsi formuler quelques principes qui nous semblent importants pour une politique adaptée à notre époque : </p>
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<li>Les structures de lEtat doivent correspondre à la volonté dune majorité la plus grande possible de la population qui y vit. </li>
<li>Il est souhaitable que la population soit consciente du fait que les structures étatiques ne peuvent remplir leur rôle correctement que si beaucoup de gens conservent une attitude fondamentalement critique vis-à-vis de ce même État. Lappareil de lÉtat doit être observé de façon critique et sa vocation comme étant au service de la population est à rappeler sans cesse. Toute tendance autoritaire est à combattre. Lutilisation des moyens de lÉtat doit être contrôlée par la population non seulement par voie parlementaire mais directement. </li>
<li>Les centres de décision doivent être situés au niveau le plus proche de la population concernée afin que celle-ci puisse avoir une influence réelle. </li>
<li>Lorsquil faut déléguer des compétences il faut que celles-ci restent le plus rapprochées possible, géographiquement et socialement. </li>
<li>Le principe d "absence de gouvernement est à reconnaître comme valable dans la mesure du possible. Les minorités sont à respecter. </li>
<li>Dans la mesure du possible, les biens publics doivent être produits par coopération libre et volontaire. La coopération peut être imposée seulement lorsque elle est nécessaire pour la production de bien publics voulus par la majorité et adoptée de façon démocratique. </li>
<li>L'identification des individus avec lÉtat ne doit pas être encouragée. A l'inverse, lÉtat devrait être perçu comme un instrument au service de la population. Chacun doit contribuer par engagement personnel et coopération volontaire à ce que la distance à lÉtat reste la plus petite possible et que les structures de lÉtat puissent être réduites à un minimum. </li>
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<p>Il devient ainsi clair en quoi les idées anarchistes sont pertinentes dans la discussion actuelle sur l'intégration européenne. Ces idées constituent un véritable outil critique face à la tendance dominante actuelle de déplacer les compétences vers des instances toujours supérieures qui ne sont pas contrôlables démocratiquement ou dont le contrôle démocratique est devenu purement formel.</p>
<p><a href="http://europa-magazin.ch/europamagazin/Aktuell/Dossiers-Themenfokus/Anarchismen/2/">http://europa-magazin.ch/europamagazin/Aktuell/Dossiers-Themenfokus/Anarchismen/2/</a></p>
<span class="small">5.3.2014, 7:54</span>Wed, 05 Mar 2014 07:54:00 GMTPolymoney Workshophttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Polymoney-Workshop/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Polymoney-Workshop/<p>Das Brett- und Rollenspiel Polymoney wurde von FleXibles - Verein zur Förderung neuer Arbeitsformen unter der Leitung von Jens Martignoni entwickelt. Es zeigt, dass neue Geldsystemen als Lösungsansatz heutiger Wirtschaftsprobleme eine wichtige Rolle spielen könnten. Im Zentrum steht das Leben in einem Quartier, das nicht auf der See- oder Sonnenseite liegt, sondern etwas mehr im Schatten. Anhand von Geld, Besitz und Spekulation wird gezeigt, dass es unter den gegebenen Verhältnissen zwangsläufig ist, dass Arbeitslosigkeit, Armut und Existenzprobleme auftreten. Doch mit viel Eigeninitiative und mit Hilfe der Stadt kann es den Bewohnenden gelingen, der Misere zu entkommen und wieder gesundes Leben ins Quartier zu bringen. Ein zentraler Schlüssel ist dabei die Einführung einer Komplementärwährung und die Aktivierung der kreativen Ressourcen. Dies wird im Spiel Polymoney als Brett-, Rollen- und Lernspiel von den Mitwirkenden entdeckt und gemeinsam entwickelt.</p>
<p>Am 11. Februar um 18 bis um 21 Uhr findet in Biel ein Workshop mit dem Spiel Polymoney statt. Nach einer kurzen Einführung zu Komplementärwährungen kann innerhalb des Spiels in einer Rolle die Entwicklung eines Stadtquartiers mitgestaltet werden. Anschliessend Auswertung und Diskussion der Ergebnisse.</p>
<p>Polymoney Workshop<br />
Wyttenbachhaus (Zimmer 3), Rosiusstrasse 1<br />
Kosten: 30 Fr., inkl. Imbiss in der Pause<br />
Anmeldung: <a href="mailto:info@vision2035.ch">info@vision2035.ch</a><br />
Sprache: deutsch</p>
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<span class="small">11.2.2014, 8:08</span>Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:08:00 GMTZukunftsforum im Lorraine Quartierhttp://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Zukunftsforum-im-Lorraine-Quartier/
http://zumbrunn.com/mochazone/Zukunftsforum-im-Lorraine-Quartier/<p>Wer im Dezember in den Strassen des Lorraine Quartiers in Bern unterwegs war, wurde vielleicht zufällig ausgewählt und zur Teilnahme eingeladen: Die Tour de Lorraine und der Verein Participate.ch führten Anfang Januar mit zufällig ausgewählten Bewohner_innen der Lorraine einen zweitägigen Workshop zu Visionen und Ideen für das Quartier durch.</p>
<p>Aufgrund der Zufallsauswahl handelt es sich bei den Teilnehmer_innen solcher Zukunftsforen um Menschen aus der breiten Bevölkerung. Insbesondere vertreten sie dadurch keine Interessengruppen, sondern ihre persönliche Meinung. Was zählt, sind das ganz persönliche Wissen und die individuellen Erlebnisse im Quartier. Die Teilnehmer_innen schärfen während ihrer Zusammenarbeit die relevanten Fragen, Probleme und Lösungsideen und folgen dabei dem, was den Teilnehmenden wirklich wichtig ist.</p>
<p>Mit diesem Ansatz will Participate.ch mithelfen, unsere politische Kultur in Richtung einer resilienten Gesellschaft zu wandeln. Das heutige Politik- und Gesellschaftssystem kann die Art von nachhaltigen Lösungen nicht erbringen, die in Zukunft notwendig sind. Es braucht einen selbst gesteuerten Wandel. Participate.ch will dazu beitragen, die erwartungshaltungsdominierte Konsumgesellschaft durch eine selbstorganisierte Zivilgesellschaft abzulösen, welche sich nicht durch zentralisierte Machtstrukturen instrumentalisieren lässt.</p>
<p>Im Workshop Anfangs Januar hat die Gruppe zufällig ausgewählter Bewohnerinnen und Bewohner der Lorraine über die Zukunft des Quartiers diskutiert. Der Startpunkt der Diskussion war schnell gefunden: die Verdrängung durch teurer werdenden Wohnraum. Die Suche von neuen Lösungsideen war schwieriger. Insbesondere bei privaten Investoren ist der Handlungsspielraum klein. Hoffnung besteht auf einen grösseren Einfluss der Stadt auf die Investoren, und der besseren Nutzung des Spielraums bei eigenen Projekten der Stadt Bern, um damit den gemeinnützigen Wohnungsbau stärker zu fördern. Auch der genossenschaftliche Wohnungsbau wird trotz Kostenmieten immer teurer und steht ebenfalls stark unter Druck.</p>
<p>Es braucht mehr politisches Engagement der Bevölkerung im und für das Quartier Lorraine. Die Lorraine ist ein lebendiges Quartier. Das gilt es zu erhalten und sollte die privaten Investoren und die Stadt motivieren, Ihre Liegenschaften so zu unterhalten und gestalten, dass dieses lebendige Quartier erhalten bleibt.</p>
<p>Damit die Bevölkerung aktiv sein kann, braucht sie gute Informationen. Da setzt diese Gruppe ihren Schwerpunkt: eine Kommunikationsplattform  real und virtuell - und eine gute Vernetzung helfen der Lorraine auf ihrem erfolgreichen Weg in die Zukunft.</p>
<p>Die interessierte Bevölkerung des Quartiers versammelte sich am Abend des Donnerstag, 16. Januar 2014 in der Aula der gibb, Gewerblich-Industrielle Berufsschule Bern, wo die Workshop Ergebnisse präsentiert und von der Bevölkerung diskutiert und weiterentwickelt wurden.</p>
<p>Im Rahmen solcher Zukunftsforen kann das Engagement im und für das Quartier gefördert und verstärkt werden. Ideen werden entwickelt und verwirklicht. Idealerweise werden diese Zukunftsforen periodisch mit neuen zufällig ausgewählten Leuten wiederholt.</p>
<p>Der nachfolgende kurze Film wurde als Einstimmung für die Abendveranstaltung des Zukunftsforums eingesetzt.</p>
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<p>Anlässlich der Abendveranstaltung des Zukunftsforums haben sich die Teilnehmer bezüglich ihren Interessen und persönlichem Engagement im Quartier vernetzt. Du hast auch mit dem nachfolgenden Formular noch Gelegenheit dich mit den entstandenen Gruppen zu vernetzen und aktiv mitzumachen.</p>
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<span class="small">7.2.2014, 14:12</span>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 14:12:00 GMT